--- title: 'Back to the Future (1985)' type: 'film' director: 'Robert Zemeckis' released: '1985-07-03' runtime_minutes: 115 certification: 'PG' genres: - 'Comedy' - 'Adventure' - 'Science Fiction' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/back-to-the-future-1985' review_count: 1 fandom_rating: '9.00/10' fandom_stars: '4.50/5' imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Back to the Future (1985) 1985 · PG · 115 min · Comedy, Adventure, Science Fiction · United States Part of: Back to the Future ## Synopsis Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas F. Wilson. Set in 1985, it follows Marty McFly (Fox), a teenager accidentally sent back to 1955 in a time-traveling DeLorean automobile built by his eccentric scientist friend Emmett "Doc" Brown (Lloyd), where he inadvertently prevents his future parents from falling in love – threatening his own existence – and is forced to reconcile them and somehow get back to the future. ## Credits - **Director:** [Robert Zemeckis](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-zemeckis) - **Screenplay:** [Robert Zemeckis](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-zemeckis), [Bob Gale](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-gale) - **Producer:** [Bob Gale](https://cinepixo.com/people/bob-gale), [Neil Canton](https://cinepixo.com/people/neil-canton) - **Original Music Composer:** [Alan Silvestri](https://cinepixo.com/people/alan-silvestri) - **Director of Photography:** [Dean Cundey](https://cinepixo.com/people/dean-cundey) - **Editor:** [Arthur Schmidt](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-schmidt), [Harry Keramidas](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-keramidas) ## Cast - [Casey Siemaszko](https://cinepixo.com/people/casey-siemaszko) - [Billy Zane](https://cinepixo.com/people/billy-zane) - [Lea Thompson](https://cinepixo.com/people/lea-thompson) as Lorraine Baines McFly - [Claudia Wells](https://cinepixo.com/people/claudia-wells) as Jennifer Parker - [Donald Fullilove](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-fullilove) - [Will Hare](https://cinepixo.com/people/will-hare) - [Maia Brewton](https://cinepixo.com/people/maia-brewton) - [George Buck Flower](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-buck-flower) - [Courtney Gains](https://cinepixo.com/people/courtney-gains) - [Jason Marin](https://cinepixo.com/people/jason-marin) - [Huey Lewis](https://cinepixo.com/people/huey-lewis) - [Thomas F. Wilson](https://cinepixo.com/people/thomas-f-wilson) as Biff Tannen - [Christopher Lloyd](https://cinepixo.com/people/christopher-lloyd) as Emmett Brown - [James Tolkan](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-tolkan) - [Wendie Jo Sperber](https://cinepixo.com/people/wendie-jo-sperber) ## Criticism on CinePixo Fandom rating: **9.00/10** (4.50 of 5) from 1 review — the plain average of every published rating. - **9.0/10** — [Nobody Warns You That It Is About Your Parents](https://cinepixo.com/reviews/nobody-warns-you-that-it-is-about-your-parents) by Marcus Reid, 2026-08-19 > The DeLorean gets the poster, but the reason the last act plays like a held breath is that a boy has met his mother and father as teenagers and cannot help liking them. Official site: https://www.backtothefuture.com/movies/backtothefuture1 Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/back-to-the-future-1985 Film facts: Wikidata (Q91540); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.